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Story on Page 16A
70th Year - No. 78 f.W Morninn! hV FriWav. Dw. 76. 1 977 2 Sections - 22 Pages -- 15 Cents 1 8
Congress OKs Social Security tax raise
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Congress
adjourned for the year Thursday after
approving a multi-billio- n dollar in-crease
in Social Security taxes. But it
put off action until next year on
President Carter's top legislative goal
energy.
The initial session of the 95th
Congress the first with Carter in the
White House ended uneventfully
after the Senate and House pushed
through a number of compromise bills.
As their colleagues left, energy
negotiators continued private meetings
in hopes of getting an agreement the
full Congress will endorse when it
returns in January.
Unlike other years, there was no
rowdy, boisterous or bitter late-nig- ht
session to mark the adjournment It
was as routine as congressional leaders
planned.
In addition to the $227 billion increase
in Sodal Security taxes which barely
squeaked through the House
Congress passed and sent to the White
House legislation to pump more federal
funds into cleaning up the nation's
waterways and a three-yea- r extension
of legal services for the poor.
The Senate also passed an extension
until Feb. IS of Carter's powers to
allocate natural gas during emergency-shortage-s
uk! to provide a new system
of financing black lung benefits through
a coal tax. But both those measures
were blocked in the House.
At me same time, the Senate put off
until January a (7.8 billion sup-plemental
money bill mat could have
provoked a fight, and possibly a
filibuster, over funds for two more B--l
bombers Carter does not want
As expected, House Speaker Thomas
O'Neill and Senate Democratic Leader
Robert Byrd lauded the ac-complishments
of the session. O'Neill
said "this has been a tremendously
productive session."
They noted the number of major bills
that cleared the economic package of
tax reductions and jobs, an increase in
the minimum wage, dean air and clean
water bills, strip mine and mine safety
measures and creation of an Energy
Department
There was no mention of the 29
percent pay increase members ac-cepted
in February.
But Senate GOP Leader Howard
Baker said, "I would suspect that'
majority leaders in the House and the
Senate are expected to say things like
that 1 dont think there is any way
that you can claim that mis Congress
has been the most productive of several
congresses."
The most controversial measure
Congress tackled on its last day of work
this year was Social Security, and the
bill almost ran into trouble even at the
end.
Although the Social Security bill was
approved by the Senate 56-2- 1, the House
almost scuttled it in a surprisingly
strong show of opposition. It approved
by only a three-vot- e margin 178-17- 5 a
rule allowing the bill to be brought up
for action before giving final
congressional consent to the measure
189-16- 3.
The bill, a compromise reached by
Senate-Hou- se negotiators, will cost
Americans $227 billion in payroll taxes
over the next decade. It is designed to
sustain the retirement benefit system,
which otherwise might have gone broke
in the future.
There was smoother sailing for a
compromise bill giving cities and in-dustry
more time to meet 1977 water
cleanup deadlines which they failed
to make and providing an additional
$28.7 billion for the projects.
HaHftBK ' "a H
wsB93HKuiuu r iT- - Abb
Robert Byrd ukm
The pressure wfll still be on'
bh 9 VawSBSE' bVSH9Bk ial
Tip O'Neill
Thinks energy package near
Il&SlgM
Weldon's
question:
sell or keep?
Legislature would
veto commercial sale
By Brian Flfachpangh
Missonrian staff writer
The sun has yet to set on questions
concerning the fate of the University's
8,088-acr- e (3,725-hectar- e) Weldon
. Spring tract in St Charles County.
Since the University Board of
Curators placed a "not for sale" sign in
the path of negotiations with, tbe
.Missouri Department of Conservation
- to. buy the property on Sept ,9, few
gnawers have been rwamQagg:
The conservation department's $13.6
million' offer, which would have
enriched the University's endowment
fund, was rejected as "just not enough"
Bex Williams, board president, said.
This action by the curators, in an 8--1
vote, came despite pressure from some
state legislators and the advice of
University President James Olson to
sell tbe property to the conservation
department
The curators then directed the
University to "resume study of the
educational uses of the property . . .
and the possibilities for financing such
uses." The results of an internal study
conducted by an 13-mem- ber University
committee is due in time for a board of
curators' meeting in March. The
committee's first suggestions on use of
the property will be submitted to the
curators today.
While the fate of the property will not
be decided until this report is released,'
now, three months later, the University
essentially has two options left: using,
the property for educational purposes
or reopening negotiations with the
conservation department for sale or
lease of part of or all of the tract
Some of the heated suggestions made
about utilizing the tract have calmed in
recent months. "Commercial
development is, of course, cut," Rex
Williams said.
Threats to cut - University ap-propriations,
however, are still there,
..House Speaker Kenneth Rothman, D-Clayt- on,
has said, if the University
choses to go in the direction of com-mercial
development But because of
actions in the last legislative session a
land sale to a commercial developer
"probably couldn't get through tbe
legislature," Rothman said.
A bill giving legislators final ap--
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UPItetephoto Master at work
Who says dogs can't ski? Not Casey. Of course at times Casey
doesn't think he's a dog anyway. The Irish setter dons goggles and
skis as he prepares to inspect the snow at Oglebay Park in West
Virginia. He's all ready for a brisk run down the icy slopes.
Warm weather's a relief
hut it will only he brief
By Jon Treacher
Mhsotnian staff writer
Warm Winds breezed through
Columbia Thursday, bringing a
welcome relief from winter's on-slaught,
But, while 85 F (IS C)
: seemed positively Julyish, Dewey
. Jobe of the'Hational Weather Ser--,.
vice says ifs not --unusual at aU for
--
-' DejonibeT.' s ' -
,
'. are'iig'from,"he sauL Last
Tdc, they came from the norm and
the long underwear came out of the
closet TMa week, they're from the
sown. . ' t '
We ikl come within eight degrees .
:''""'-iiii-i
'iT'iVh iTJ " '- - ' "' '' K"
Thursday of reaching the record
high of 73 F (23 C).
Jobe said the normal temperature
for this time of year is a high of F
(5 C) and a low of aF HC). . ' "I would call this weather un-seasonable,
but not unusual," he
said.
Last December the high was 63F .
(17 C) on Dec. 18 and tbe low was --12
F (--24 C) en Dec. 31. ' , ..
Friday 's Ugh win be in the low 60
F (about 17 C) but .the National ;
Weather Service is predicting a cold
front will pass through tbe Central .;
Missouri area on Saturday bringing ?'
the temperatures down to40F (4C).
Winter didn't go away. It Just took
a fewdaysoff.
Son of Cyprus leader
NICOSIA, Cyprus (UPI) - Two
gunmen using a stolen taxi kidnapped
the 19-year-- old son of Cyprus' president
from his commando training camp and
vowed to behead him Thursday night
unless all political prisoners were
freed.
The Greek Cypriot newspaper
Democratiko Vima reported that the
kidnappers warned President Spyros
Kyprianou directly that his son,
AchUleas, would die unless all their
demands were met.
"If by tonight all political prisoners
and detainees are not set free, we shall
send you the head of your son," the note
to the'president said, according to the
newspaper, which is the organ of the
pro-Wester- n, .rightwing Democratic
Rally party.
Police would not confirm the
newspaper story, but they had a tape-record- ed
message from the kidnappers
vowing Achilleas would die if all
demands were not met by 10 p.m. (2
p.m. GST) Thursday.
The deadline passed without any
word from the kidnappers. Kyprianou
and &9 cabinet ministers remained
closeSjad in conference at the
presidential office.
Young Kyprianou, a second
lieutenant in the Cypriot National
Guard, was abducted Wednesday night
outside the gate of his commando camp
southwest of Nicosia.
A military source said eight officers
attached to the guard had been taken
into custody for questioning.
A presidential aide was overheard
saying in a telephone conversation that
yielding to the kidnappers would mean
the end of Kyprianou's three-month-o- ld
government Kyprianou became presi-de- nt
when Archbishop Makarios died in
August.
I
--Ne- w
Fentsl-isispeeti2a-siisaii- e --
may go to council in January
By Alan Bute
Missourian staff writer
Inspections for all Columbia rental
property may be as near as next May if
the City Council passes an ordinance
Sixth Ward Councilman Clyde Wilson is
planning to introduce in January.
Wilson explained his proposal to the
council during Thursday's informal
workshop on the history and present
status of city housing codes. Wilson said
the rental licensing plan is similar to
one he proposed in 1974, which the
council defeated.
"It will not be a change in the present
housing code," Wilson said. "It will be a
change in the licensing procedures of
rental businesses."
Unlike the 1974. proposal, which
exempted inspections for rental
property with three units or less, this
ordinance would require all owners to
renew their licenses every two years.
An inspection would have to be made
by city inspectors before the license
would be issued. Wilson said the
process would be "the same as in-specting
before getting a car license."
City Manager Terry Novak estimated
May 1 would be the earliest starting
date for the program if the council
passes the ordinance by February. He
said it would require about a $15,000
allocation this fiscal year, and about
$35,000 the next. Novak said some of the
cost might be taken out of federal
community development block grant
funds.
Besides the 1974 ordinance, Wilson
introduced an occupancy permit or-dinance
last spring, which also was
defeated by the council. He told council
members attending the workshop it is
the city's duty to enforce the codes.
"The city does assume responsibility
in such areas as health and sanitation,"
he said. "We have the same respon-sibility
concerning the housing."
Wilson said after the workshop he
doesn't know if the other council
members support or oppose his current
plan. He said he has not been contacted
by members of an ad-h- oc committee of
landlords, tenants and city officials,
which convened this summer to solve
housing code enforcement problems.
The council will be meeting once
more this year in an emergency session
to discuss the contract problems of the
proposed Fire and Police Building. The
Economic Development Ad-ministration
has told the city it must
find another contractor that meets
minimum federal requirements of
minority ownership.
Glascock trial moved to Kirksville
ByJoScawefthard
Missonrian staff writer
A change of venue in the trial of
former Boone County Clerk Murry
Glascock was granted Thursday by
Circuit Court Judge John Cave. The
judge approved a joint recom-mendation
by attorneys to move the
trial to Kirksville in Adair County.
Glascock was indicted by the 1977
Grand Jury Oct 13 and charged with
felony stealing of more than (11,000 in
county funds. He resigned Oct 24.
The decision to move the trial came
after Glascock's attorney, Carl Sapp,
submitted a change of venue request
which charged that local media had
been "highly critical of the defendant
and that the publicity given to the
defendant by both Boone County and
Callaway County by the news media, by
radio and by television, has caused the
people...to become prejudiced against
the defendant"
Prosecuting Attorney Milt Harper
met and agreed with Sapp earlier this
week that Kirksville in Adair County
would be a satisfactory place to conduct
the trial, which now will be beard by
Circuit Court Judge Bruce Normile.
Harper said a number of factors,
including facilities, transportation for
witnesses and time available on a
circuit court's docket had to be con-sidered
in changing venue.
"We're going to ask for a very quick
trial-settin- g date," Harper said, in-dicating
it would be sometime after
Jan. 1. "I don't see how in the world it
could be set before then," be said.
Harper would not comment on
whether there might be negotiations on
some of the 16 counts listed in
Glascock's indictment "I am prepared
for trial," was the prosecutor's only
response.
Larry Woods, representing the firm
of Sapp, Woods and Orr, appeared on
behalf of the defense.
Cave approved the attorney's
recommendation, saying, "The ap-plication
for a change of venue is
sustained by agreement Venue is
changed to Adair County, Mo. The
(circuit) clerk is authorized to transmit
the original file."
lii town
today
10 a.m. Boone County
Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation Service Con-vention,
Federal Building.
1:15 p.m. University Board of
Curators meeting, Memorial
Union.
7:30 p.m. Missouri Tigers vs.
California Poly State of Pamona,
Heames Center.
7:36 pjn. Christmas concert,
West Junior High School.
Movie listings on Page 2B
California abductors tound guilty
OAKLAND, Calif. (UPI) - A judge
Thursday convicted three young men
from wealthy families on charges of
injuring three of tbe victims in the
kidnapping of a busload of Chowchilla,
Calif., school children and their bus
driver in a plot to obtain $5 million in
ransom money.
Alameda County Superior Court
Judge Leo Deegan noted that the three
children suffered nose bleeds, fainting
spells or stomach aches as a result of
their "ordeal by terror."
-- Deegan's verdict came after 16 days
- of testimony in a non-jur-y trial which
began Nov. 1. ....
The conviction means t Frederick
Woods, W, Richard SchoenfekL 26, and .
' his brother, Jamas, '2$ will be sen--'
tenced to life in prison without
possibility of parole. -- '
. .
The defendants, all froni the San.
Francisco Peninsula,-- - had pleaded
guilty to simple kidnap charges. They
would have been eligible for parole on
these charges in seven years.
Deegan set Jan. 16 for presentence
reports on the defendants and said be
would conduct a "mitigating cir-cumstances"
bearing requested by
defense attorneys who said the verdict
was too harsh.
None of the defendants showed any
emotion when the verdict was an-nounced.
- --
"
.The judge said Judy Heffington,
Rebecca Reynolds and Jennifer Brown
had suffered the bodily injury.
However, he said the other two victims
named in ihe indictment bus driver
.Ed Kay and Cynthia Van Hoff were
not hurt ''
A baste contention of the prosecution
was mat the victims had suffered from,
beat exhaustion. But Deegan ruled
against this.
The bus was carrying 26 children and.
Ray on their wiqr home from a summer
session on July 15, 1976, when three
masked and armed men boarded it and
seized the occupants.
Woods and the Schoenfelds then
transferred the victims to vans and
took them to a Livermore, Calif., rock
quarry where they were imprisoned in
a buried van. The victims remained
there for 16 hours before they managed
to dig their way to safety.
Deegan noted that tbe victims suf-fered
their ailments both in --the toan- - ., sport van and the buried one. He said
there were fad odors and air problems
in bom vehicles.
"With aU this in mind I do honestly
. feel and am persuaded mat bodily
harm was inflicted in mis case," the
judge said.
Of their incarceration, Deegan also
said: "Tbe children were not told why
they were in there. They, were afraid
they would die to there. It was an ordeal
of terror. -
"That to me causes suffering just
plain suffering and that to me is what
the statute is all about"
The defense attorneys said they
would appeal One, Herbert Yanowitz,
said the injuries noted by Deegan were
"reactions" to the Hdnapping. "That is
not sufficient grounds for finding them
guilty," he said.
The defense lawyers also complained .
about tbe rapidity with which Deegan
rendered his decision.
However, the judge said before
convicting the trio that he had ample
time during the course of the trial to
"reflect and consider" tbe testimony.
The prosecution had called-th- e ab-duction
an "ordeal .by torture and
terror" that justified a harsh, tto-psxo- le
Assistant District Attorney Richard
Haugner-.calle- d the buried van'Ti"a
potential d$ath trap, torture chamber
created tyttedtfaKhria."

jflf ri H , a if Jl II ' ' MXJ doFiw s
Story on Page 16A
70th Year - No. 78 f.W Morninn! hV FriWav. Dw. 76. 1 977 2 Sections - 22 Pages -- 15 Cents 1 8
Congress OKs Social Security tax raise
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Congress
adjourned for the year Thursday after
approving a multi-billio- n dollar in-crease
in Social Security taxes. But it
put off action until next year on
President Carter's top legislative goal
energy.
The initial session of the 95th
Congress the first with Carter in the
White House ended uneventfully
after the Senate and House pushed
through a number of compromise bills.
As their colleagues left, energy
negotiators continued private meetings
in hopes of getting an agreement the
full Congress will endorse when it
returns in January.
Unlike other years, there was no
rowdy, boisterous or bitter late-nig- ht
session to mark the adjournment It
was as routine as congressional leaders
planned.
In addition to the $227 billion increase
in Sodal Security taxes which barely
squeaked through the House
Congress passed and sent to the White
House legislation to pump more federal
funds into cleaning up the nation's
waterways and a three-yea- r extension
of legal services for the poor.
The Senate also passed an extension
until Feb. IS of Carter's powers to
allocate natural gas during emergency-shortage-s
uk! to provide a new system
of financing black lung benefits through
a coal tax. But both those measures
were blocked in the House.
At me same time, the Senate put off
until January a (7.8 billion sup-plemental
money bill mat could have
provoked a fight, and possibly a
filibuster, over funds for two more B--l
bombers Carter does not want
As expected, House Speaker Thomas
O'Neill and Senate Democratic Leader
Robert Byrd lauded the ac-complishments
of the session. O'Neill
said "this has been a tremendously
productive session."
They noted the number of major bills
that cleared the economic package of
tax reductions and jobs, an increase in
the minimum wage, dean air and clean
water bills, strip mine and mine safety
measures and creation of an Energy
Department
There was no mention of the 29
percent pay increase members ac-cepted
in February.
But Senate GOP Leader Howard
Baker said, "I would suspect that'
majority leaders in the House and the
Senate are expected to say things like
that 1 dont think there is any way
that you can claim that mis Congress
has been the most productive of several
congresses."
The most controversial measure
Congress tackled on its last day of work
this year was Social Security, and the
bill almost ran into trouble even at the
end.
Although the Social Security bill was
approved by the Senate 56-2- 1, the House
almost scuttled it in a surprisingly
strong show of opposition. It approved
by only a three-vot- e margin 178-17- 5 a
rule allowing the bill to be brought up
for action before giving final
congressional consent to the measure
189-16- 3.
The bill, a compromise reached by
Senate-Hou- se negotiators, will cost
Americans $227 billion in payroll taxes
over the next decade. It is designed to
sustain the retirement benefit system,
which otherwise might have gone broke
in the future.
There was smoother sailing for a
compromise bill giving cities and in-dustry
more time to meet 1977 water
cleanup deadlines which they failed
to make and providing an additional
$28.7 billion for the projects.
HaHftBK ' "a H
wsB93HKuiuu r iT- - Abb
Robert Byrd ukm
The pressure wfll still be on'
bh 9 VawSBSE' bVSH9Bk ial
Tip O'Neill
Thinks energy package near
Il&SlgM
Weldon's
question:
sell or keep?
Legislature would
veto commercial sale
By Brian Flfachpangh
Missonrian staff writer
The sun has yet to set on questions
concerning the fate of the University's
8,088-acr- e (3,725-hectar- e) Weldon
. Spring tract in St Charles County.
Since the University Board of
Curators placed a "not for sale" sign in
the path of negotiations with, tbe
.Missouri Department of Conservation
- to. buy the property on Sept ,9, few
gnawers have been rwamQagg:
The conservation department's $13.6
million' offer, which would have
enriched the University's endowment
fund, was rejected as "just not enough"
Bex Williams, board president, said.
This action by the curators, in an 8--1
vote, came despite pressure from some
state legislators and the advice of
University President James Olson to
sell tbe property to the conservation
department
The curators then directed the
University to "resume study of the
educational uses of the property . . .
and the possibilities for financing such
uses." The results of an internal study
conducted by an 13-mem- ber University
committee is due in time for a board of
curators' meeting in March. The
committee's first suggestions on use of
the property will be submitted to the
curators today.
While the fate of the property will not
be decided until this report is released,'
now, three months later, the University
essentially has two options left: using,
the property for educational purposes
or reopening negotiations with the
conservation department for sale or
lease of part of or all of the tract
Some of the heated suggestions made
about utilizing the tract have calmed in
recent months. "Commercial
development is, of course, cut," Rex
Williams said.
Threats to cut - University ap-propriations,
however, are still there,
..House Speaker Kenneth Rothman, D-Clayt- on,
has said, if the University
choses to go in the direction of com-mercial
development But because of
actions in the last legislative session a
land sale to a commercial developer
"probably couldn't get through tbe
legislature," Rothman said.
A bill giving legislators final ap--
(See PANEL, Page MA)
W li n
iBBSflaBHifiSMnBIBnVsElHfnflniffluHBw1- -
UPItetephoto Master at work
Who says dogs can't ski? Not Casey. Of course at times Casey
doesn't think he's a dog anyway. The Irish setter dons goggles and
skis as he prepares to inspect the snow at Oglebay Park in West
Virginia. He's all ready for a brisk run down the icy slopes.
Warm weather's a relief
hut it will only he brief
By Jon Treacher
Mhsotnian staff writer
Warm Winds breezed through
Columbia Thursday, bringing a
welcome relief from winter's on-slaught,
But, while 85 F (IS C)
: seemed positively Julyish, Dewey
. Jobe of the'Hational Weather Ser--,.
vice says ifs not --unusual at aU for
--
-' DejonibeT.' s ' -
,
'. are'iig'from,"he sauL Last
Tdc, they came from the norm and
the long underwear came out of the
closet TMa week, they're from the
sown. . ' t '
We ikl come within eight degrees .
:''""'-iiii-i
'iT'iVh iTJ " '- - ' "' '' K"
Thursday of reaching the record
high of 73 F (23 C).
Jobe said the normal temperature
for this time of year is a high of F
(5 C) and a low of aF HC). . ' "I would call this weather un-seasonable,
but not unusual," he
said.
Last December the high was 63F .
(17 C) on Dec. 18 and tbe low was --12
F (--24 C) en Dec. 31. ' , ..
Friday 's Ugh win be in the low 60
F (about 17 C) but .the National ;
Weather Service is predicting a cold
front will pass through tbe Central .;
Missouri area on Saturday bringing ?'
the temperatures down to40F (4C).
Winter didn't go away. It Just took
a fewdaysoff.
Son of Cyprus leader
NICOSIA, Cyprus (UPI) - Two
gunmen using a stolen taxi kidnapped
the 19-year-- old son of Cyprus' president
from his commando training camp and
vowed to behead him Thursday night
unless all political prisoners were
freed.
The Greek Cypriot newspaper
Democratiko Vima reported that the
kidnappers warned President Spyros
Kyprianou directly that his son,
AchUleas, would die unless all their
demands were met.
"If by tonight all political prisoners
and detainees are not set free, we shall
send you the head of your son," the note
to the'president said, according to the
newspaper, which is the organ of the
pro-Wester- n, .rightwing Democratic
Rally party.
Police would not confirm the
newspaper story, but they had a tape-record- ed
message from the kidnappers
vowing Achilleas would die if all
demands were not met by 10 p.m. (2
p.m. GST) Thursday.
The deadline passed without any
word from the kidnappers. Kyprianou
and &9 cabinet ministers remained
closeSjad in conference at the
presidential office.
Young Kyprianou, a second
lieutenant in the Cypriot National
Guard, was abducted Wednesday night
outside the gate of his commando camp
southwest of Nicosia.
A military source said eight officers
attached to the guard had been taken
into custody for questioning.
A presidential aide was overheard
saying in a telephone conversation that
yielding to the kidnappers would mean
the end of Kyprianou's three-month-o- ld
government Kyprianou became presi-de- nt
when Archbishop Makarios died in
August.
I
--Ne- w
Fentsl-isispeeti2a-siisaii- e --
may go to council in January
By Alan Bute
Missourian staff writer
Inspections for all Columbia rental
property may be as near as next May if
the City Council passes an ordinance
Sixth Ward Councilman Clyde Wilson is
planning to introduce in January.
Wilson explained his proposal to the
council during Thursday's informal
workshop on the history and present
status of city housing codes. Wilson said
the rental licensing plan is similar to
one he proposed in 1974, which the
council defeated.
"It will not be a change in the present
housing code," Wilson said. "It will be a
change in the licensing procedures of
rental businesses."
Unlike the 1974. proposal, which
exempted inspections for rental
property with three units or less, this
ordinance would require all owners to
renew their licenses every two years.
An inspection would have to be made
by city inspectors before the license
would be issued. Wilson said the
process would be "the same as in-specting
before getting a car license."
City Manager Terry Novak estimated
May 1 would be the earliest starting
date for the program if the council
passes the ordinance by February. He
said it would require about a $15,000
allocation this fiscal year, and about
$35,000 the next. Novak said some of the
cost might be taken out of federal
community development block grant
funds.
Besides the 1974 ordinance, Wilson
introduced an occupancy permit or-dinance
last spring, which also was
defeated by the council. He told council
members attending the workshop it is
the city's duty to enforce the codes.
"The city does assume responsibility
in such areas as health and sanitation,"
he said. "We have the same respon-sibility
concerning the housing."
Wilson said after the workshop he
doesn't know if the other council
members support or oppose his current
plan. He said he has not been contacted
by members of an ad-h- oc committee of
landlords, tenants and city officials,
which convened this summer to solve
housing code enforcement problems.
The council will be meeting once
more this year in an emergency session
to discuss the contract problems of the
proposed Fire and Police Building. The
Economic Development Ad-ministration
has told the city it must
find another contractor that meets
minimum federal requirements of
minority ownership.
Glascock trial moved to Kirksville
ByJoScawefthard
Missonrian staff writer
A change of venue in the trial of
former Boone County Clerk Murry
Glascock was granted Thursday by
Circuit Court Judge John Cave. The
judge approved a joint recom-mendation
by attorneys to move the
trial to Kirksville in Adair County.
Glascock was indicted by the 1977
Grand Jury Oct 13 and charged with
felony stealing of more than (11,000 in
county funds. He resigned Oct 24.
The decision to move the trial came
after Glascock's attorney, Carl Sapp,
submitted a change of venue request
which charged that local media had
been "highly critical of the defendant
and that the publicity given to the
defendant by both Boone County and
Callaway County by the news media, by
radio and by television, has caused the
people...to become prejudiced against
the defendant"
Prosecuting Attorney Milt Harper
met and agreed with Sapp earlier this
week that Kirksville in Adair County
would be a satisfactory place to conduct
the trial, which now will be beard by
Circuit Court Judge Bruce Normile.
Harper said a number of factors,
including facilities, transportation for
witnesses and time available on a
circuit court's docket had to be con-sidered
in changing venue.
"We're going to ask for a very quick
trial-settin- g date," Harper said, in-dicating
it would be sometime after
Jan. 1. "I don't see how in the world it
could be set before then," be said.
Harper would not comment on
whether there might be negotiations on
some of the 16 counts listed in
Glascock's indictment "I am prepared
for trial," was the prosecutor's only
response.
Larry Woods, representing the firm
of Sapp, Woods and Orr, appeared on
behalf of the defense.
Cave approved the attorney's
recommendation, saying, "The ap-plication
for a change of venue is
sustained by agreement Venue is
changed to Adair County, Mo. The
(circuit) clerk is authorized to transmit
the original file."
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California abductors tound guilty
OAKLAND, Calif. (UPI) - A judge
Thursday convicted three young men
from wealthy families on charges of
injuring three of tbe victims in the
kidnapping of a busload of Chowchilla,
Calif., school children and their bus
driver in a plot to obtain $5 million in
ransom money.
Alameda County Superior Court
Judge Leo Deegan noted that the three
children suffered nose bleeds, fainting
spells or stomach aches as a result of
their "ordeal by terror."
-- Deegan's verdict came after 16 days
- of testimony in a non-jur-y trial which
began Nov. 1. ....
The conviction means t Frederick
Woods, W, Richard SchoenfekL 26, and .
' his brother, Jamas, '2$ will be sen--'
tenced to life in prison without
possibility of parole. -- '
. .
The defendants, all froni the San.
Francisco Peninsula,-- - had pleaded
guilty to simple kidnap charges. They
would have been eligible for parole on
these charges in seven years.
Deegan set Jan. 16 for presentence
reports on the defendants and said be
would conduct a "mitigating cir-cumstances"
bearing requested by
defense attorneys who said the verdict
was too harsh.
None of the defendants showed any
emotion when the verdict was an-nounced.
- --
"
.The judge said Judy Heffington,
Rebecca Reynolds and Jennifer Brown
had suffered the bodily injury.
However, he said the other two victims
named in ihe indictment bus driver
.Ed Kay and Cynthia Van Hoff were
not hurt ''
A baste contention of the prosecution
was mat the victims had suffered from,
beat exhaustion. But Deegan ruled
against this.
The bus was carrying 26 children and.
Ray on their wiqr home from a summer
session on July 15, 1976, when three
masked and armed men boarded it and
seized the occupants.
Woods and the Schoenfelds then
transferred the victims to vans and
took them to a Livermore, Calif., rock
quarry where they were imprisoned in
a buried van. The victims remained
there for 16 hours before they managed
to dig their way to safety.
Deegan noted that tbe victims suf-fered
their ailments both in --the toan- - ., sport van and the buried one. He said
there were fad odors and air problems
in bom vehicles.
"With aU this in mind I do honestly
. feel and am persuaded mat bodily
harm was inflicted in mis case," the
judge said.
Of their incarceration, Deegan also
said: "Tbe children were not told why
they were in there. They, were afraid
they would die to there. It was an ordeal
of terror. -
"That to me causes suffering just
plain suffering and that to me is what
the statute is all about"
The defense attorneys said they
would appeal One, Herbert Yanowitz,
said the injuries noted by Deegan were
"reactions" to the Hdnapping. "That is
not sufficient grounds for finding them
guilty," he said.
The defense lawyers also complained .
about tbe rapidity with which Deegan
rendered his decision.
However, the judge said before
convicting the trio that he had ample
time during the course of the trial to
"reflect and consider" tbe testimony.
The prosecution had called-th- e ab-duction
an "ordeal .by torture and
terror" that justified a harsh, tto-psxo- le
Assistant District Attorney Richard
Haugner-.calle- d the buried van'Ti"a
potential d$ath trap, torture chamber
created tyttedtfaKhria."